Deep Foundations

BAU503
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Murat Hamderi - Turkish-German University
Deep Foundations 
7 ECTS
Integrated course (lectures and exercises) in the summer semester.
Compulsory elective module.

Syllabus
Content
Soil Classification and Phase Relationships, Elastic-Plastic Equilibrium, Active-Passive Soil Pressures, Rankine, Coulomb and some other Soil Theories, Sheet Pile Walls, Theory and Design of Deep Foundations, Theory and Design of Capacity of a Single Pile, Pile Capacity using On-site Pile Test Results, Introduction to Modelling of Piles in Finite Element Programs, Capacity of Pile Groups, Pile Group Efficiency, Behavior of Piles under Horizontal Loads, Cassion Foundations, Anchored Pile Walls
Description of Teaching and Learning Methods

• Lecture notes and in class Finite Element Applications.
• 2 Projects